1/8: Ugly victory is the Russian way of war: 3/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, Sean McMeekin, with Kevin Stillwell as narrator. Published by Basic Books. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
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1/8: Ugly victory is the Russian way of war: 3/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, Sean McMeekin, with Kevin Stillwell as narrator. Published by Basic Books. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
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World War II: Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia—and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did not fight in multiple theaters, his empire did not span the Eurasian continent, and he did not inherit any of the spoils of war. That central role belonged to Joseph Stalin. The Second World War was not Hitler’s war; it was Stalin’s war:
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| 0:41.0 | Speaking with Professor Sean McMekhan of Bard College, the author of the new book, |
| 0:45.2 | Stalin's War, a new history of Orba 2, |
| 0:48.9 | from the point of view of Joseph Stalin, who inherits from Vladimir Lennon, |
| 0:53.7 | the thinking, the theory, set the imperialist capitalist states against each other. |
| 0:58.7 | Do not enter the war until the end and gobble up territory, recover the Russian Empire and more, |
| 1:05.4 | create the power of the earth by watching the monster nations of France and Germany, |
| 1:13.0 | those in England, those with the three shots that Stalin had in mind, |
| 1:18.2 | a battle each other just as they did in the Great War. |
| 1:21.8 | The US, of course, was a new consideration for Stalin, |
| 1:25.8 | and now comes a mystery that Sean presents to us in his book. |
| 1:30.5 | I said the Battle of Moscow turns on a couple of details, the frozen ground, |
| 1:35.9 | followed by the muddy ground, the exhausted German invasion, the exhausted Russian defenders. |
| 1:41.8 | However, six months earlier, |
| 1:44.2 | my name Harry Hopkins, representing the President of the United States, |
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